I should add I started as a Van Boy, stayed in the Transport game until I retired …… Not as a Van Boy LOLHow many of you blokes can remember there first jobs after leaving School ?...… I got hold of this picture with a
stroke of luck of the place I started at John Dickinson in 1952 at the age of 15
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Good Man DougMy first "real" job, not counting mowing yards and washing/waxing cars for money, was joining the United States Army Reserve while I was a Junior in high school. Did basic training during summer break between my Junior and Senior years, then went to AIT in San Antonio immediately after graduation. After finishing that and coming back to my local MASH unit, where I was a medic/X-Ray tech. I started college full time, studying medical imaging. The money I got from weekend drills, along with the GI Bill, and money I made from helping a lady and her husband clean up the high school gym after basketball games, allowed me to get through college with minimal debt (I was still living with my parents, and college was *much* cheaper back then than it is now). Immediately upon graduation in 1988 I was offered a full time job at the hospital I did my clinical training at, and I've been working full time in medical imaging for thirty years now, at various hospitals and outpatient facilities. I re-upped one time in the Army Reserve, then chose not to re-up again in 1991.
That's Sterling mateLeft Boarding school in Keswick on on a Saturday, travelled home to Aldershot - 325 miles via coach and walk home from the bus station.
Unpacked on Sunday.
Cycled 8.5 miles the next day to arrive at my first job for 7.30am - working with glass fibre manufacturing parts for tanks for an MOD contract - we made glass fibre containers that held shells which were fixed inside the tanks - also made bullet proof panels for banks.
Left work at 5.30pm, rode home, showered, ate a hearty meal (typical teenager with hollow legs) washed down with a pint mug of tea, then crashed out on the sofa!!
Up the next morning and at it again!!
Steve
Nice bike! Is that actually you?
Good bikes those ChoppersDelivering the Long Island Press back when there were paperboys.
That's Sterling mate